Editorial Articles

Water treatment plant successfully makes switch from gas to liquid chlorineProblem: An Indiana water treatment plant in Indiana facing regulatory and safety challenges with...

Aftermarket Parts/ServiceHeadworks International Performance MonitorImproper chain tension can lead to costly equipment damage and premature wear and tear. Headworks International’s Performance Monitor...

Computers are fast, accurate and stupid. Humans are slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination. Versions of this quote made...

After decades of operation, the pumps supplying wastewater to the trickling filters at the Cayuga Heights Wastewater Treatment Plant had become inefficient...

The Southtowns Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility has been saving money on power for years with small changes that didn’t require new equipment.In...

Rianna Laughridge owes her start in the wastewater profession to her observations while scuba diving. Now she’s an operator at the Woodland...

Pump stations are essential to wastewater collection, but also a source of maintenance and other issues for operators.The main culprit is the...

Biosolids management has never been easy in New England. The states are small, the populations dense and vast rural acreage suitable for land...

Each year the children’s water festival in Boulder hosts 800 to 1,000 young minds. Last year’s participants included 34 classes representing 14...

Managing the water system in one community isn’t enough for Tony Lastowski.While serving as water superintendent in the town of Hatfield, Massachusetts...

Valerie Jenkinson owns World Water and Wastewater Solutions, at one time among Canada’s largest water-sector training firms with more than 70 accredited...

Bob West had a long and satisfying career in Indiana’s coal mining country.But after three decades, he needed something new. “I was...

Olivia Woolery joined Monterey One Water in California with a bachelor’s degree in environmental science and summer internships at a commercial lab....

It might be difficult to imagine a wastewater treatment process that doesn’t use chemicals or biological agents or membranes or filters. But that’s...

Operators have lots of places to get training. Many neglect or don’t even know about what arguably are the best sources. Fourteen environmental...

Plant City has produced and sold high-quality reclaimed water for 30 years. But events ultimately called for more reliable outlets for that...

The World Bank’s Water Global Practice says fewer than one in five water workers are women.In Belleville, Ontario, on Lake Ontario’s Bay...

During the 2021 pandemic, when people were advised to spend time outdoors, the board of Gaithersburg (Maryland) Parks, Arts and Recreation Corporation...

Weighing in trucks at the Pasco County Landfill was not Jeannie Burda’s idea of a stimulating career.“I used to go home and...